{"id":44704,"date":"2022-05-21T19:18:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T10:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/21\/joe-biden-and-south-korea-president-mull-expanding-joint-military-exercises"},"modified":"2022-05-21T19:18:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T10:18:52","slug":"biden-and-south-korean-president-mull-expanding-joint-military-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44704","title":{"rendered":"Biden and South Korean president mull expanding joint military exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president willing to meet Kim Jong-un, while Seoul says deployment of US \u2018strategic assets\u2019 was discussed<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk-yeol, have said they are considering expanding joint military exercises in response to the \u201cthreat\u201d posed by North Korea, a move that is expected to enrage the regime as speculation builds that it could conduct a nuclear test.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Seoul on the second day of his visit to South Korea, Biden said he was willing to meet North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, but only if he was \u201csincere and serious\u201d about dismantling his nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/21\/joe-biden-and-south-korea-president-mull-expanding-joint-military-exercises\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president willing to meet Kim Jong-un, while Seoul says deployment of US \u2018strategic assets\u2019 was discussedJoe Biden and his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk-yeol, have said they are considering expanding joint military exercises in response to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,939,421,40,441,222,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-joe-biden","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-korea","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44705,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44704\/revisions\/44705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}